‘Winter Was Hard’

NARROWSBURG, NY — “Winter Was Hard,” new photographic landscapes by Sullivan County artist Erik Freeland, opens on Saturday, March 25 with a reception from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Delaware Arts Center Gallery at 37 Main Street. The exhibition will be on view through April 14.

Freeland was born in Richmond, VA, in 1969. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photojournalism from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1993. He has worked internationally as a photojournalist and has done work for The Independent in London, England, The US News & World Report in Washington DC and for a time was based in Paris where worked for a number of American and British magazines including Business Week, Forbes and The Sunday Telegraph Magazine.

Although most of his past photographic work has been in magazine photojournalism, this current body of work is returning him to, and revitalizing, his core photographic interests. “The idea for this show developed during our first full winter at our house in Cochecton,” said Freeland. “The winter of 04-05 was brutal in both its length and severity. I hope to relay the feelings I had of the stark, subtle beauty of the landscape and how weather reduces nature down to harsh and beautiful forms with moments of appreciation and moments of disgust.”

“I try to communicate the same sense of excitement as a child showing something he has just found under a rock when I take a photograph. I have always enjoyed this search for images and most of the work I hold dearest was found this way. I think, at its core, it is this process that I have been attracted to in both my photojournalism and current landscape work.”

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

For more information call 845/252-7576.